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ASC.ARMY.MIL 21
require less than the top-secret protection
it can provide. PD COMSEC can prevent
a waste of time and resources by guiding
these individuals to alternatives to Type 1
when lesser security levels are appropriate.
As the single interface between the Army
and NSA to find the best key management
and cryptographic materiel solutions, PD
COMSEC is streamlining the security
certification process without jeopardizing
information security.
The testing community is also finding
ways to better keep pace with industry
without compromising the Army's
robust standards. The series of four
Network Integration Evaluation (NIE)
and Network Integration Rehearsal
events, which began in June at Fort Bliss,
TX, and White Sands Missile Range,
NM, and will run through 2012, yield
operational efficiencies by sharing costs
and utilizing the same available brigade.
Efficiencies will also be seen on the
battlefield, where Soldiers across sepa-
rate echelons will plan and execute the
battle in a synchronized fashion using a
Network Capability Set.
The new testing and equipping model
allows the Army to evaluate programs of
record and new ideas from industry more
quickly, integrate them before fielding to
units in combat, and make incremental
improvements based upon feedback.
From an FBCB2 perspective, Soldier feed-
back from the limited user test for FBCB2
Joint Capabilities Release at the NIE will
influence the design and capabilities of
Joint Battle Command-Platform (JBC-P),
the next-generation FBCB2/BFT tech-
nology for tactical aircraft, vehicles, and
dismounted forces that will be fielded to
the Army and the Marine Corps begin-
ning in FY13.
MODULAR STRATEGY
ACCELERATES DELIVERY
A more modular acquisition strategy can
also accelerate delivery of these capabili-
ties to the warfighter.
For example, in the past, FBCB2 used one
main contractor that handled software
development and subcontracted out for
other requirements such as hardware. Try-
ing to steer that one large contract became
ponderous and inefficient, so PEO C3T's
Project Manager (PM) FBCB2 changed
the approach. The lead for software devel-
opment was handed over to the Software
Engineering Directorate within the U.S.
Army Aviation and Missile Research,
Development, and Engineering Center,
and a number of smaller contracts were
awarded for the various parts of FBCB2.
This strategy allows for a higher degree of
control and flexibility for the PM office.
Funding can be handled more effectively
as well. Most important, having the gov-
ernment set the standards and software
framework ensures that regardless of who
develops them, applications will be secure
and interoperable with existing mission
command systems so that information
flows seamlessly across all echelons of the
force. This approach for the JBC-P fam-
ily of systems is aligned with the Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Acquisition,
Logistics, and Technology Common
Operating Environment (COE) strategy.
A modular acquisition strategy, coupled
with a COE, facilitates more frequent
contract competitions for hardware or
other functionality by reducing reliance
on the domain expertise of vendors. This
is critical in enabling the Army to keep up
with industry.
Just as the Army's brightest engineers
have innovated networked, platform-
level, digital C2/SA technologies to
cut through the fog and friction of war
as experienced in Mogadishu, it is our
responsibility to get these capabilities
into Soldiers' hands. With the network
now central to our modernization goals,
we are on the right path.
MAJ SHANE ROBB is the Assistant Product
Manager for JBC-P. He holds a B.A. in polit-
ical science from Brigham Young University
and an M.B.A. from Webster University.
AS THE SINGLE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE ARMY
AND NSA TO FIND THE BEST KEY MANAGEMENT AND
CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIEL SOLUTIONS, PD COMSEC IS
STREAMLINING THE SECURITY CERTIFICATION
PROCESS WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING INFORMATION SECURITY.
ACQUISITION